News of the Weird

[Katie]

I propose a sticky for this topic....as a collection place for all the random things that get posted in this section. :D

I'll start:

Shocking


CRALEY, Pa. -- Police said a 29-year-old York County woman is dead after her husband apparently shocked her with an electric cord to stimulate her during sex.

Officials said 37-year-old Toby Taylor was jailed Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bail on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges.

Authorities said Kirsten Taylor was found unconscious Wednesday night at their Lower Windsor Township home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.


Police charging documents said Toby Taylor first said his wife was shocked by a hair dryer. But police said when burns were found, he told them he had clipped a cord to his wife and plugged it into an electric strip three or four times.

York County Coroner Barry Bloss called it a case of "bizarre sex" and said, "Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone."


The Winner

ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) -- His lottery ticket was a $1,000 winner, but police have seized it saying it was bought with proceeds from an illegal drug sale.


A judge will decide whether a man will keep a $1,000 lottery ticket police say was bought with drug money.

Michael David, who had been staying at an Ellsworth motel, sold four 10-milligram methadone pills for $15 each last week, Police Chief John Deleo said.

He then went to a convenience store and bought lottery tickets and other merchandise and went back to his motel room, where he was busted.

"I guess it will be up to a judge to decide, but it's in our possession right now as proceeds from a drug transaction," Deleo said of the winning ticket.

David, 46, remained in custody Monday in the Hancock County Jail on drug trafficking charges. An official at the jail said David was not available

[愛]

1.) I'm not going to sticky a general news thread.

2.) I'm not going to sticky a thread that spells "weird" wrong.

[Katie]

well, you could have at least corrected my typing error, since that was all it was.

and you can't blame a girl for trying something new! G'nite folks! :D

[愛]

Sorry, I'm just tired of all the news threads. Every time someone gets a puppy or bought some groceries, there has to be a news thread about it. Perhaps you could wait until some real news is released.

[KROW]

I think this is a cool idea, Katie. All the whacked-out topics people find can be posted in one thread, thereby cleaning up this section a little. I vote for a sticky, making it a total of.... 2. Well, it's a start. ;)

CRALEY, Pa. -- Police said a 29-year-old York County woman is dead after her husband apparently shocked her with an electric cord to stimulate her during sex.

Officials said 37-year-old Toby Taylor was jailed Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bail on involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges.

Authorities said Kirsten Taylor was found unconscious Wednesday night at their Lower Windsor Township home. She was taken to York Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.


Police charging documents said Toby Taylor first said his wife was shocked by a hair dryer. But police said when burns were found, he told them he had clipped a cord to his wife and plugged it into an electric strip three or four times.

York County Coroner Barry Bloss called it a case of "bizarre sex" and said, "Even if you did it before, you have to know you could kill someone."

Wow. Vibrators seem a little less taboo now.

[syd]

Love kills... =_=

Marriage's stupid.*explored*

[Hannah]

I before E except after C unless it's weird.

[KROW]

Strange Time Capsule

TOKYO (AFP) - A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) below the Pacific.

A fisherman found the still legible piece of paper sitting on a sticky flatfish in his catch on Thursday, along with a torn-off string and the fragment of a red balloon.

He opened the folded paper, discovering it was a handwritten letter from a six-year-old girl at an elementary school in Kawasaki, 150 kilometres (93 miles) away from where the fish was caught off Choshi port.

The sender, Natsumi Shirahige, and her friends released letters as part of events to mark the school's 120th anniversary, which was in 1993.

"Our school is 120 years old... If you pick up this letter, please write to me," the letter reads, listing the school's address.

The 52-year-old fisherman said the letter was a nice surprise.

"I've been in fishing for a long time but this is unbelievable," the smiling man told the Asahi television network.

Shirahige, now a 21-year-old university student, said: "I can't get over the wonder of how the letter survived 15 years. I never expected I'd get a reply this way."

SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080125/od_afp/japanpostanimaloffbeat_080125183046)

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Ratatouille

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate.

"Understandably, he lost his appetite," said Sakari Kela, chief administrator at the Northern Karelia Central Hospital.

The health of the patient in Joensuu, eastern Finland, had not been compromised by the dead rodent, Kela said on Saturday.

The severed head most likely originated in a bag of Belgian vegetables. The body has not been found and being "a Belgian mouse, the rest of it could be anywhere in Europe", Kela said.

(Reporting by Sakari Suoninen)

SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080126/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_finland_mouse;_ylt=AlvqpMmmHHzwgFkc4ZY2Nz PtiBIF)

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Jackpot Jeans

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - All week, Sammy Zabib was getting an earful from his girlfriend for forgetting to buy her a pair of designer jeans she spotted in a casino boutique last weekend.

"She was mad," said Zabib, a 42-year-old limousine fleet manager in New York. "We had an argument. More than one."

They're not arguing now.

On a return trip to pick up the jeans and end the grief Friday morning, Zabib won nearly $800,000 playing a slot machine.

He got up at 5 a.m. and drove three hours to Atlantic City, arriving at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa before the boutique, Whim, opened at 10 a.m.

In his pocket was a photocopy of a picture of the jeans that his girlfriend printed out for him, just to make sure there would be no confusion.

With some time to kill, he sat down at a Brazil Slingo slot machine and started playing, betting $4 a spin for about an hour.

"I was just trying to kill time until the store opened so I could get her those jeans," he said. "Then the machine stopped working. I didn't know why, so I called security. They came over, took a look at it, and said, 'You won the jackpot!'"

He called his girlfriend, whom he identified only as Anna, and she started screaming.

"She wasn't mad anymore," he said with a laugh. "She's waiting for me at home now."

After receiving his payout from the casino, Zabib completed his mission, buying the pair of "7 For All Mankind" jeans — Dojo style — that Anna had wanted so badly.

"They're the hot brand right now," said Borgata spokesman Michael Facenda. "They go for $149 a pair."

Zabib doesn't know what else he'll do with his newfound riches.

"Maybe buy her some more jeans," Zabib said.

SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_fe_st/odd_jeans_jackpot;_ylt=AiqcafeMvcF0NfRj_jF_mdPtiBI F)

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Mama's Outlaws

LODI, Calif. - Shoplifting is all in the family for one California clan, police say.

A grandmother, her daughter and some of her grandchildren tried to steal $900 worth of merchandise from a Target store in Lodi, 35 miles south of Sacramento, police Officer Misty Smith said.

The family's alleged shoplifting spree earlier this week was captured by surveillance video, which police say showed them cutting open boxes and hiding MP3 players, digital cameras, DVDs, jewelry and sports equipment in purses, bags and a backpack.

An 8-year-old and a 5-year-old were among the family members detained.

"The 5-year-old actually had a pack of gum. A small item but we could see where her life was heading because she thinks more than likely this is a normal way of life, this is what you do," said Dale Eubanks of the Lodi police.

Linda Robinson, 59, and her 36-year-old daughter, Anna Fernandez, were charged Wednesday with burglary, grand theft, vandalism and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. They were released from jail. If convicted, each could face eight years in prison.

Fernandez's teenage sons, 17 and 14, were arrested on suspicion of grand theft and will face charges in juvenille court, authorities said. Another teen not related to the family also was arrested.

The two children were released to relatives and will not face charges.

It was not immediately clear if the family had a lawyer.

SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_fe_st/family_shoplifting;_ylt=Au6Ti2a81xfIk_oEc2ekppPtiB IF)

[Warhorse]

Hey, I'm all for a sticky thread for weird news. Krow's right, would keep the site a bit more clutter free.

Anyways, while not weird, more worrysome, a satelite which lost power, is crashing back to earth. Here's the full story on it.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday.


A senior government official says lawmakers and other nations are being kept apprised of the situation.

The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret.

"Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

"Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly. We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause." Watch why the bus-sized satellite is causing concern »

He would not comment on whether it is possible for the satellite to be perhaps shot down by a missile. He said it would be inappropriate to discuss any specifics at this time.

A senior government official said that lawmakers and other nations are being kept apprised of the situation.

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Asteroid probably won't hit Mars, scientists say
The largest uncontrolled re-entry by a NASA spacecraft was Skylab, the 78-ton abandoned space station that fell from orbit in 1979. Its debris dropped harmlessly into the Indian Ocean and across a remote section of western Australia.


In 2000, NASA engineers successfully directed a safe de-orbit of the 17-ton Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, using rockets aboard the satellite to bring it down in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

In 2002, officials believe debris from a 7,000-pound science satellite smacked into the Earth's atmosphere and rained down over the Persian Gulf, a few thousand miles from where they first predicted it would plummet.

Taken from CNN.com.

[odupianist]

ADRIAN, Mich. — A man was charged with drunken driving after going through two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the center of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said.

Police found Frank Kozumplik, 49, homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag, officials said.

He told officers that his wife had taken their car to work, and that the mower was the only way he could reach the store, two miles from home.

His blood alcohol level was 2 1/2 times Michigan's legal driving limit of 0.08 percent, police told WLEN-FM. They arrested him and confiscated the mower.

Kozumplik declined to comment Monday night.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326227,00.html

[Warhorse]

^LOL. That's when you ride a horse, cant be arrested for RUI! Not yet anyways.:ohwell:

[Leonardo Mystic]

Is That a Crowbar in Your Pants?


SWEETWATER, Tenn. (AP) — A woman has been charged with possession of burglary tools after police said a crowbar slipped out of her pants as she was lurking around a church.

McMinn County Sheriff's Deputy Rick Shadrick pulled into the church parking lot early Saturday morning after he spotted a car parked near the building.

He found Jennifer Hunt, 35, walking from behind the building, where she said she was going to bathroom. When she was walking to her car to get her ID, a crowbar dropped from her pants

The officer also found Hunt had a screwdriver and observed pry marks on church doors. Hunt was being held on $2,000 bond pending a Tuesday arraignment.



Rescue Group: Please Adopt Donkeys


ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Instead of finding homes for abandoned dogs or cats, one animal rescue group is asking Minnesotans to adopt donkeys. Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue has more than 1,000 donkeys, including abused and neglected domestic donkeys and wild burros.

Most of the organization's adopted donkeys are kept at sanctuaries in western states such as California. But Peaceful Valley would like to find Midwest landowners willing to serve as satellite adoption centers, meaning they would agree to foster six donkeys at a time and find adoptive homes for them, said Vice President Rachael Komulainen, a Bemidji native.

Peaceful Valley also hopes to eventually get landowners to donate land for a Midwest sanctuary, Komulainen said.

The landowners provide fencing, shelter and care for the animals and are reimbursed for hay, vaccinations and other costs.

Komulainen said some people question whether donkeys really need to be rescued.

"Our society — we have really looked down upon the donkey, and it's really a shame," Komulainen said, adding that donkeys have little monetary value and are often neglected.

Donkeys are gentle, intelligent, social animals and don't deserve their reputation for stubbornness, she said.



Ribbit! This Green Isn't Part of Salad


NEW YORK (AP) — You just don't want to eat some greens. That's how a Brooklyn mom felt when she found a tiny frog comfortably nestled in the leaves of organic lettuce she was preparing to eat.

"I jumped away," said 39-year-old Yvonne Brechbuhler, who described the green critter as no bigger than the tip of her pinky finger.

"I didn't know what it was. But once I realized it was a frog, I was OK," she told the Daily News in Thursday editions.

Intrigued, she named the frog "Curious."

Brechbuhler, a stage actress, said she bought the lettuce at her local food co-op and kept it in the refrigerator three days before using it last week.

Brechbuhler and her 7-year-old daughter, Orla, placed the frog in a jar on a bed of lettuce leaves and water, and fed it fruit flies they collected at a nearby garden. Afterward, they decided Curious would be happier at an animal facility specializing in reptiles and amphibians. The facility, Sean Casey Animal Rescue, has put it up for adoption.

An employee at the food co-op said it was the first such incident in memory.




Chocolate Room Heralds Valentine's Day

NEW YORK (AP) — Don't lick the walls. An all-chocolate room was unveiled in Manhattan on Tuesday — a pre-Valentine's Day creation complete with furniture and artwork made of the sweet stuff.

"It's the perfect bit of sin," said Ali Larter, star of TV's "Heroes," of the Godiva chocolate "pearls" that are her private daily indulgence.

Here, they were dripping off the chandeliers above the dining table, which was a sea of stars, truffles and crescents — all chocolate, of course, under glass.

Larter is the celebrity face hired by the Belgian chocolatier for its annual Valentine's Day promotion contest. This year, anyone who buys the winning box of chocolates — for $23 and up — may win the chocolate room. It is to be re-created in a suite of Manhattan's Bryant Park Hotel for a pampered getaway weekend for two in May.

The winning box — sold only in North America — will contain a note informing the buyer of his or her good luck.

While no doubt a shameless commercial promotion — created by Los Angeles designer Larry Abel — the demo chocolate room set up on the sixth floor of an East Village building packed a tasteful, artsy punch.

Hanging in the "living room" was a painting built entirely of multicolored chocolate pieces inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting "The Kiss." Above the dining table was a "canvas" dripping with brown and white chocolate — a takeoff on Jackson Pollock's signature "drip" paintings.

And instead of words, books opened to a mound of chocolates.

You could actually sit on the plush sofa, which was chocolate-graced only on its sides, and the walls are made of chocolate.

There were a couple of "dont's" in the room: lighting the fireplace (with its chocolate logs and mantle) and the candles (all chocolate).

In addition, sinking into the easy chairs was discouraged — unless you wanted to rise with a chocolate-covered derriere.

[Raph's Girl]

mmm... Salami...

German authorities were able to pin a burglary committed in April on a suspected serial thief after he left a half-eaten slice of salami carrying a sliver of his DNA at a crime scene, police said Thursday.

The 37-year-old Romanian man is accused of breaking into a workshop office in the western city of Darmstadt, stealing cash and two locks and causing damage worth around 3,400 euros ($5,055), Suedhessen police spokesman Ferdinand Derigs said. "He didn't bring the salami with him -- it was just lying around in the office," Derigs said.

The man was already wanted in connection with 19 burglaries and had been taken into custody in January after a routine police road check, he added. Investigations are continuing.

Flying the REALLY Friendly Skies

German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm.

Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros ($735).

"It's expensive, I know," managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's because the plane's very small. There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."

The 55 passengers will have to remain clothed until they board, and dress before disembarking, said Hess. The crew will remain clothed throughout the flight for safety reasons.

"I wish I could say we thought of it ourselves but the idea came from a customer," Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's an unusual gap in the market."

Naturism, or "free body culture" (FKK) as it is known in Germany, was banned by the Nazis but blossomed again after the Second World War, particularly in eastern Germany.

"There are FKK hotels where you can go into the restaurants and shops naked, for example," Hess said. "For FKK fans -- not that I'm one of them -- it's nothing unusual."

"I don't want people to get the wrong idea. It's not that we're starting a swinger club in mid-air or something like that," he added. "We're a perfectly normal holiday company."

[Drtooth]

I unfortunately have no link to this news, but...

Singer Tom Jones just insured his chest hair. Not kidding.

[Warhorse]

How can you insure something that can always grow back? About almost as bad as when Jennifer Lopez had her butt insured. Alot of good that did, she still has her butt, and her career is going nowhere.

[Drtooth]

How can you insure something that can always grow back? About almost as bad as when Jennifer Lopez had her butt insured. Alot of good that did, she still has her butt, and her career is going nowhere.

It reminds me how food critics actually have to have their tongues insured. Of course, they have to use them every day. it's like insureing your arms if you work with wood or something.

But chest hair? Sounds like something a character from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo would do.

[Warhorse]

Look what these cops did to this poor guy in a wheel chair. Apparently the main deputy didn't believe the guy was a paraplegic. After watching this video, can you say law suit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGb7_g4Aso&feature=related

[Raph's Girl]

Look what these cops did to this poor guy in a wheel chair. Apparently the main deputy didn't believe the guy was a paraplegic. After watching this video, can you say law suit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGb7_g4Aso&feature=related

Yea.. this has been all over the news today. Fraking cops.

[Drtooth]

http://www.tbo.com/video/xml/MGBBBA7WXCF.html

Well, it looks like the Elmo toys are at it again... saying mumbly, jumbly stuff a clearly hard of hearing mother misconstrues as something terrible.

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.tbo.com/video/xml/MGBBBA7WXCF.html

Well, it looks like the Elmo toys are at it again... saying mumbly, jumbly stuff a clearly hard of hearing mother misconstrues as something terrible.

That's just it... it really DOES sound like it's saying "Kill James?"

[Jo Dawn]

Well, of course it does. Do people think Child's Play is FICTION??

[Drtooth]

That's just it... it really DOES sound like it's saying "Kill James?"

It sounds closer to "Kell James," "Tell James," or "Ghell James" to me. At least it's more audible than "Who wants to Die" in "FRRMM MRRRMRfff {crackle} Pottyfffff poofffff" in the talking book or "Rip Elmo's Fur out" in "{Crackle, crackle, crackle} FRRRRMRRUMM REFFFF GRFFF KRFFFFF NRRRRR PFFFTR {crackle}" in the singing Elmo that was recalled for Lead paint anyway.

[Ra]

Not really weird news, but I think it didn't really deserve it's own thread.

Two would-be armed robbers have had an unlucky run-in with 50 bikers, who stopped them after they tried to hold up a western Sydney club last night.

The pair, armed with machetes, threatened staff at the club on Terrene Street at Regent's Park about 9:00pm (AEDT).

About 50 members of the Southern Cross Cruiser motorcycle club were meeting there and caught one of the men in the car park.

They held him down until police came and arrested him.

The president of the club, who goes by the nickname Jester, says the robbers did not realise his group was there.

"I asked one of the guys in the foyer - I think it was either the security or one of the managers there - if there was a back entrance out of the bar and he said, 'Yeah, round by the roller door out the front,' so we ran around the roller door out the front," he said.

"This guy opened up the roller door and we crash-tackled him in the doorway, so in the heat of the moment, I just grabbed him and threw him to the ground."

Police say the second man was found at Auburn a short time later.

One man is under police guard at Westmead Hospital with minor injuries and the other man is helping with inquiries.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/28/2175003.htm

[Raph's Girl]

This first one is in weird news cuz um it's in Yahoo's Oddly Enough thread....actually they all are...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080305/od_nm/vermont_dc_1

Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for "crimes against our Constitution," local media reported.

The nonbinding, symbolic measure, passed in Brattleboro and Marlboro in a state known for taking liberal positions on national issues, instructs town police to "extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them."

Vermont, home to maple syrup and picture-postcard views, is known for its liberal politics.

State lawmakers have passed nonbinding resolutions to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush and Cheney, and several towns have also passed resolutions of impeachment. None of them have caught on in Washington.

Bush has never visited the state as president, though he has spent vacations at his family compound in nearby Maine.

Roughly 12,000 people live in Brattleboro, located on the Connecticut River in the state's southeastern corner. Nearby Marlboro has a population of roughly 1,000.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080304/od_afp/israelreligionoffbeat

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

"As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.

"The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a clasic phenomenon," he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music."

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.

He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

Moses: "Duuuude....this bush talked to me....and it was burning with all these funky colours man....."
Pharoah: "......"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_fe_st/odd_speedway_ashes

Big George Helms had tickets for last weekend's NASCAR race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but died before he got to use them. He still made it to the track, though.

At 6-foot-5 and 400 pounds, Helms wouldn't have been able to fit into a race car. But after his death from a heart attack Dec. 28, loved ones decided to try to fulfill the 54-year-old's dream of participating in a NASCAR race, and arranged for the former logger's ashes to be driven around the track.

"His friends came up to us during the memorial service and asked us if they could take his ashes to the NASCAR race," said Helms' mother, Dixie Helms. "I said 'He'd love that.'"

Driver Mike Harmon taped Helms' urn to the fire extinguisher of his Nationwide Series car during practice last Friday. He told ESPN he could hear someone squealing when he went through a couple of turns.

"I swear I did," Harmon said. "I heard a noise I've never heard before. It happened just one time, through Turns 1 and 2."

Mara Brodeur, a friend who accompanied the urn to Las Vegas, called Helms' family afterward to describe how it went.

"It put tears in my eyes," said Helms' younger brother, Allen.

And Helms will be at the track's next race, in spirit anyway. His friends spread some of his ashes at the speedway before returning the rest to his mother.

That's it...when I die I want my ashes spread on a Nascar track!

[Mr. Snackpants]

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-52/1206044367143500.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

A woman died after a sting ray leaped out of the water and hit her while she was riding a boat. The impact alone killed her. That's just terrible luck and is not funny. But our crappy local news station put up the following headline when talking about this story..."Pigeon Woman killed by Stingray". What a terrible headline. We were laughing so hard. I didn't even know there was a town here in Michigan called Pigeon. "Pigeon Woman.....wtf?"

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-52/1206044367143500.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

A woman died after a sting ray leaped out of the water and hit her while she was riding a boat. The impact alone killed her. That's just terrible luck and is not funny.

Crikey mate!! Those Sting Rays are plotting world wide domination!! First Steve Irwin and now a bird woman from Michigan!!

And incidentally...Pigeon, Michigan. Population 1207...er oops 1206
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon%2C_Michigan

[Revan]

^ I saw that. Isn't that crazy. An animal expert said these rays can fly out of the water for distances as far as 15 feet! :o

[Raph's Girl]

Local news decided to be morbid today and showed footage of the dead Ray on the boat. Poor thing was all bloodied up.

[Leonardo Mystic]

This one kind of tickled me which is the reason I'm posting it. All that's missing is a swimming pool sized glass of milk.


14 tons of spilled Oreo cookies snarl Ill. traffic
Monday, May 19, 2008 9:00 AM EDT
The Associated Press


MORRIS, Ill. (AP) — Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway.

Illinois State Police Sgt. Brian Mahoney says the truck's driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on Interstate 80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median.

"The boxes came out of the trailer and boxes were ripped open," he said.

The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation.

Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes of traffic remain closed while authorities remove the cookies.

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece

Airport guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.

He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.

"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."

The top has the Transformers film character Optimus Prime on the front.

Brad, of Bayswater, West London, added: "It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?

"I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn’t. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested."

A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said: "If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it.

"We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category."

Last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding and last week a PhD student was stopped for wearing a gun-shaped charm necklace at an airport in Canada.

WTF? :ohwell:

[Leonardo Mystic]

Airport security is getting ridiculous. I do understand they're only doing their job to protect passengers, but it's getting way out of hand. They're seeing things that aren't even there.

So what's next? Someone's going to be threatened with arrest for wearing a TMNT shirt? I'm certain they'll probably see it as "OMG! Weapons! They're going to skewer people! Eleventyhundred!111!!11!" :ohwell:

[Raph's Girl]

So what's next? Someone's going to be threatened with arrest for wearing a TMNT shirt? I'm certain they'll probably see it as "OMG! Weapons! They're going to skewer people! Eleventyhundred!111!!11!" :ohwell:

Next time I go to an airport Im gonna wear the Raphael shirt I have where he's throwing a sai in the air....just to see what happens. :P

[Machias Banshee]

Thank you, political correctness... ;)

It's ridiculous, but that's how people are getting these days...

[Cure]

Next time I go to an airport Im gonna wear the Raphael shirt I have where he's throwing a sai in the air....just to see what happens. :P

I hope you miss your flight and get arrested for intentionally egging them on after knowing that it could cause trouble.

[Ra]

"Oh noes! It's a Transformers shirt! Run away!! D: "

For a race of intelligent beings, we aren't really that intelligent as a whole, are we?

[Aelia]

I'm tempted to sew together all the t-shirts I own that could be seen as offensive into one shirt, go to my local airport, and maybe dance around the place to see if the fashion police- I mean the SECURITY GUARDS will stop me.

[Drtooth]

source (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Brandon-Inge-angles-for-a-lucrative-pillow-endor?urn=mlb,90675)
Brandon Inge angles for a lucrative pillow endorsement
By 'Duk
We've heard about players getting hurt while sneezing, while sleepwalking through a nightmare about spiders and after kicking an iron bar stool.

But we had never heard of a pillow-lifting injury in baseball — that is, until Detroit Tigers' everyman Brandon Inge reported an overstuffed owie on Wednesday, earning a feather-paved (and probably overdue) path to the injury list.

The details, from the Free Press:


"It was the stupidest, most freakish thing," Inge said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle (oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago.

"I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed with my wife and me," Inge said. "I was trying to push the pillow down behind his head (two nights ago), and when I did ... I repopped (the strained muscle).

"You take swings in baseball, and it's not as bad as pushing a pillow down."

Upon hearing this story, manager Jim Leyland said, "That's a first."


It definitely is a first, but I think anyone who's getting up there in age — like myself and Mr. Inge — can relate to feeling a little pain in the obliques or lower back when doing random things.

Heck, while formatting this blog, I threw my back out three different times. I'm guessing a few people probably did while reading it, too. It's a dangerous world out there.


Didn't think it was worthy for its own thread, so here ya go.

[Warhorse]

I'm tempted to sew together all the t-shirts I own that could be seen as offensive into one shirt, go to my local airport, and maybe dance around the place to see if the fashion police- I mean the SECURITY GUARDS will stop me.

This is news to me, that you can't wear "threatening" clothing when boarding a plane. I wore my Transformers shirt when I went to Atlanta from Palm Beach. Nothing.. On my way back, I wore an old Willow shirt, that had picture of Bad Mardigan weilding his sword on his horse. No problem. And better yet, my flight mate brought on board his video game which had lots of killing going on, and no one said a thing. Seems like the airport security mentioned in the report had a bug up their nose or something. But then again, I also hear of alot of problems with the airlines lately, but I have yet to encounter any of them. I still get pretty good price quotes when I fly, ends up being way cheaper than if I were to drive.

[Buslady]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_re_us/lawn_chair_balloonist;_ylt=AhWAqUtWju9466LHXB2vlhu s0NUE

BEND, Ore. - A man has taken flight in a lawn chair hoisted by more than 150 large helium-filled party balloons in a bid to ride the wind from the central Oregon town of Bend all the way to Idaho.
ADVERTISEMENT


Kent Couch was wearing a parachute Saturday morning as he kissed his wife and kids goodbye, patted his dog and took off at sunrise from his gas station.

This is Couch's third lawn chair flight in as many years.

He hopes to do better than last year, when he flew 193 miles before running low on helium and had to land in the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon.

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pringles5-2008jul05,0,1574005.story?track=rss

Pringles, Procter & Gamble Co.'s salty snack stacked in a tube, are not potato chips, a London judge ruled Friday in a tax dispute.

Pringles don't fulfill the legal definition of "potato crisp," the British term for "chip," allowing them to be sold tax-free in Britain, Justice Nicholas Warren at the High Court in London ruled.

Under the law, most food is exempt from Britain's 17.5% sales tax. Even so, the national tax office claimed that Pringles were covered by an exception for products such as potato chips, sticks or puffs "and similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch."

Procter & Gamble's lawyers argued at a May hearing that Pringles didn't look like a chip, didn't feel like a chip and didn't taste like a chip, according to the judgment. They also maintain that the snack isn't made like a chip because it is cooked from baked dough, not potato slices.

Potato chips "give a sharply crunchy sensation under the tooth and have to be broken down into jagged pieces when chewed," the Cincinnati-based company's lawyers argued. "It is totally different with a Pringle, indeed a Pringle is designed to melt down on the tongue."

Warren agreed. Pringles aren't "made from the potato" for the purposes of the tax exemption, he said. He didn't say what Pringles are, other than that they're tax-exempt.

The British tax office said in an e-mailed statement that it would consider the judgment "with a view to deciding whether to appeal."

In a similar case in April, the British government was told by Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to entirely refund to Marks & Spencer Group more than 20 years of sales duty charged on chocolate-covered tea cakes.

Wait...so in the UK potato chips are tax exempt??? We should have that law here...course here Pringles POTATO chips would still be considered to be potato chips. Cuz if they aren't potato chips then it's false advertising.

[Buslady]

Pringles are made of potato, so yeah it's a potato product and under their rulez, exempt.

thye do taste like chips, just ultra salty

[Katie]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A Colorado Springs family is part of one of the strangest cases in medical history.

Dr. Paul Grabb, a pediatric brain surgeon, said he was surprised when he discovered a small foot growing inside the brain of 3-day-old Sam Esquibel.

"The foot literally popped out of the brain," Grabb told TheDenverChannel Wednesday.

The appendage threatened the newborn's life.

When Grabb performed the life-saving surgery at Memorial Hospital for Children in Colorado Springs, he was in for another surprise: he also found what appeared to be parts of an intestine in the folds of the infant's tiny brain, in addition to another developing foot, hand and thigh.

"I've never seen anything like it before," Grabb told the Colorado Springs Gazette. "It looked like the breach delivery of a baby coming out of the brain."

Sam was delivered on Oct. 1, within hours of an ultrasound that showed what appeared to be a tumor developing in the brain of the fetus. Three days later, Grabb performed the surgery to remove it.

The reason for the strange growth was not clear at first. It was thought to be a teratoma -- a congenital brain tumor composed of foreign tissue such as muscle, hair or teeth -- or a fetus in fetu, which is a developmental abnormality in which a fetal twin begins to form within the other.

Grabb, the only pediatric brain surgeon in southern Colorado, said that the formal pathology report identified the mass as a teratoma because of how perfectly formed the structure was but there is a fine line between that and the fetus in fetu.

"So it's unclear if a fetal twin began to form within another," Grabb said.

Grabb said he sees a teratoma once every few years but it doesn't compare to Sam's. Teratoma tumors do not usually grow as complex as a foot.

"You show those pictures to the most experienced pediatric neurosurgeons in the world, and they've never seen anything like it," Grabb told the Gazette. "This is completely abnormal."

Grabb said neurologically, Sam is expected to do well. Sam's brain tumor can come back so he will be monitoring that in the months and years to come.

There's a picture if you wanna see it.....so gross (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/18297954/detail.html#-)

[Storm Wolf]

Who needs a bullet proof vest? (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/8767&page=3)

DETROIT - The metal underwire in a Detroit woman's bra was credited with deflecting a bullet fired at her during a break-in at a neighbor's home. Detroit police Officer Leon Rahmaan said the 57-year-old woman apparently looked out her window Tuesday when one of three men fired the shot.
He said the slug smashed through her window pane before hitting the bra's underwire. It did not penetrate her skin.

Police said she may have gone to the window after a burglar alarm at the house next door sounded. Her neighbor was not at home at the time.

The suspects drove away after the shooting.
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I know it was kinda old, but I just found that pretty funny. I'll never underestimate the power of an underwire again!:lol:

[Katie]

Holy Crap.....


I think I can beat you though, Stormy. (didn't wanna give this one it's own topic out there....too....weird!!

Woman's Health Horror: 'My Vagina Fell Out'

(Nov. 6) -- Allison Henry isn't the first to suffer from a horrifying medical condition that few women talk about. But her case was particularly bad, and she's just one of the few brave souls willing to come forward so that others will have the courage to seek help.

To put it bluntly, as Henry does: "My vagina fell out of my body."

The 39-year-old school psychologist from Kenmore, Wash., suffered from a rare combination of disorders that began when she was pregnant with her son, Kirian, and she writes an amazing account of her bizarre medical condition on MomLogic.com.


"I know it sounds like a science fiction movie," she told Sphere.com. "Every time I retell this story, I still tell myself, 'I can't believe this happened to me.'"

It began five years ago, when Henry was in her 10th week of pregnancy with Kirian, her second child. She had vowed that she wouldn't gain 60 pounds this time around, and she was practicing prenatal yoga in her home when she felt a sudden pain.

"It felt like someone rammed a pitchfork up my butt, so I stopped," she writes. "It was an intense, sharp pain, but it passed."

Later that day, while giving her daughter lunch, she ran to the bathroom, thinking she had to urinate, and found blood gushing instead. "It was the biggest scare of my life," she writes.

Her OB/GYN couldn't figure out what was wrong, and she kept bleeding. "I'd bleed through a maxi pad in 30 minutes," she says.

In her 25th week, she was put on bed rest in the hospital, where she stayed for three weeks. When she finally went home, she started bleeding again and had to go back.

"My husband and I were so worried," she says. "My son was born 6 1/2 weeks early. Thank God, he's OK now."

Doctors found that she had developed a hematoma outside her placenta, and they thought that was the root of her problem.

In fact, her problems were just beginning.

'My Insides Were on the Outside'
"One day in the bathroom, I felt something kind of strange when I was wiping," she writes. "There wasn't really a hole there -- it felt kind of flat. I thought it was a little weird, but I had a 19-month-old and a newborn to care for, so I brushed it off. I wasn't bleeding, I wasn't in pain, so I didn't address it."

What Henry was describing was the beginning of a vaginal prolapse, a condition in which the vagina, uterus, rectum, bladder, urethra and small intestine shift and -- in severe cases -- innards may protrude from the body.

"Women will suffer for years and not tell anyone," says Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, a gynecologist in Los Angeles. "They'd rather tell their doctor they have a sexually transmitted disease than say that something is hanging out of them."

"Allison Henry clearly had an extraordinary, horrible case," the doctor says. "But it's widely estimated that 30 percent of women or more suffer some degree of prolapse in their lifetime."

Instead of dealing with her health problem, Henry turned her attention to raising her children. She also had to have an appendectomy, which consumed much of her time over the next year.
Still, each time she went to the bathroom, she noticed her problem was getting worse.

"One night, I took a look down there, and it was like my insides were on the outside and they were coming out," she writes. "I knew I couldn't put this off any longer. I went to my doctor and said, 'My vagina is falling out of my body!'

"I was referred to a pelvic floor specialist. She took a look and said, 'Holy crap -- your vagina is falling out of your body, and it's dragging your bladder and your rectum along with it!'"

In addition to a uterine prolapse, Henry also suffered rectocele -- a condition wherein the rectum pushes into the back walls of the vagina. "That explained why I had been constipated for months," she says.

Henry also suffered from cystocele, a condition similar to rectocele, only with the bladder.

While the normal uterus is 8 to 11 centimeters inside the vagina, hers was only 3 centimeters up, and when she was standing, it was sticking out at least 5 centimeters.

After confronting the problem, Henry was able to undergo a series of surgeries to restore her vagina, untwist her bladder, and push her rectum back into place.

"On top of this, I had a labia reduction, which was brutal," she writes. "All of 'Dr. 90210's' patients who say it doesn't hurt are lying. I'd rather get my teeth pulled out than do that again!"


Stable Mable Regains Her Humor
Her road to recovery has not been easy. At one point, she lost 30 pounds and had to return to the hospital several times to deal with complications.

"I had always been a healthy person, nothing so much as a yuckie pimple when I was growing up," she says. "And then, I was incapacitated for several weeks, many times.

"Among my friends, I was always the stable Mable," she says. "'I eventually started taking anti-depressants to cope with the chronic stress and I became so emotionally depleted."

Henry credits her husband for pulling her through. "He is the kind of man who doesn't need to be asked to do something," she says. "He just does it. It helps a lot that he was working at home most of the time this was going on."

It's now a year and a half since her last stay in the hospital, and Henry came forward to tell her story because she wants women to seek help if they have to face what she has gone through.

Uterine prolapse is most common in women following following menopause, childbirth or a hysterectomy, according to eMedicineHealth.com.

"Once I got past being mortified, I tried to keep my sense of humor. I can laugh about a lot of this now," she says. "But I also know what it means to not have your health."

Read Henry's full account on MomLogic.com.

[Powder]

Ive seen footage of that kinda thing before.... its horrible

[Voltron]

In similar news, the entire contents of my stomach just dropped out of my mouth. :sick:

[RAM BAM]

Here's one that was in the London Free Press.

11/06/2009 09:33 AM
Police Get Wrong Teletubby

Ontario: Police in London responding to an armed robbery call early in the morning after Halloween night encountered a bizarre turn of events when their search for a robbery suspect in a Teletubby costume seemed like a done deal.

It was shortly after midnight when the victim, who is in her 20s, gave the gun-toting Teletubby all of her money. Police soon stopped and questioned someone dressed as a Teletubby in the area, but then learned that their Teletubby was the wrong one.

The description given by the woman was for a clean shaven Teletubby with a muscular build and 200 to 240 pounds; short, dark hair with a height ranging between 6'2" and 6'4".

[Samhain]

Man these stories are gross.

[Guitar_Raph]

Heard this on the news. In Tennessee, there's a guy sporting a superhero outfit, protecting justice in a small town. Unfortunately, the cops arrested him for doing their duty.

[Doc_ock_4mugen]

I bet it has something to do with the Anti-Vigilantism law or article... but that is kinda cool... the whole costumed Vigilante thing.

[BubblyShell22]

I think I heard about that on the news once. Doesn't surprise me.

[The Stryker]

I bet it has something to do with the Anti-Vigilantism law or article... but that is kinda cool... the whole costumed Vigilante thing.

No. It's not. It's stupid.

[Doc_ock_4mugen]

No. It's not. It's stupid.
Ok it IS a stupid thing to do, but it's kinda cool to read about "superheroes" in the real world.

[Guitar_Raph]

Ok it IS a stupid thing to do, but it's kinda cool to read about "superheroes" in the real world.

I could imagine if there's an Ex-Cel or Rebel Boy (another fanfic) in the real world. Not only their vigilante would be dissed, but also their music.

[BubblyShell22]

How do you know that? Maybe people would like their music.

Just heard about this on the news yesterday as well. Apparently, this guy just wants to do the right thing, though people have told him to leave it to the police.

[Guitar_Raph]

How do you know that? Maybe people would like their music.

Thanks for the kind comment. You made my day. Ex-Cel would make it in jazz (vocals/guitar/vibes/tympani) while Rebel Boy would rock on the guitar & sing.

[The Stryker]

Ok it IS a stupid thing to do, but it's kinda cool to read about "superheroes" in the real world.

I don't even think that because anybody thinking it's cool would only inspire some other insane person to go out there and try to be a super hero. It doesn't help anyone in the real world.

[Cure]

I could imagine if there's an Ex-Cel or Rebel Boy (another fanfic) in the real world. Not only their vigilante would be dissed, but also their music.

Well, some people like to hate on anything simply because it's popular, so you're probably right.

[BubblyShell22]

I do agree that while this guy's intentions are for good, he should leave it to the police because he could seriously get hurt.

[Candy Kappa]

real-life superheroes, they are so funto read about and watch news footage.

[Guitar_Raph]

MEMPHIS: A high school principal is really punishing students who don't follow this dress code. No baggy pants allowed! Anyone caught with sagging pants will face the Family Matters treatment of wearing their pants up so hgh & sportin suspenders to look like Steven Q. Urkel. The teacher with the most reported violations wins the Urkel award.

Guess anyone who wears baggy pants are nitwits (1977 cartoon pun; Baggy Pants & The Nitwits-NBC).

[Cure]

Sagging pants is such a retarded trend. Just sayin'.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, it is. I don't know why parents allow their kids to wear such things. Some kids don't even tie their shoelaces anymore.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Elvis preferred baggy pants.....he hated jeans :lol:

There was a wolf attack near Stockholm.....a womans dog was killed by it.

[papa_smurf73]

A truck containing several cows toppled on a busy highway near me...

It was udder chaos.

[BubblyShell22]

I think I heard about that in the news. Definitely weird.

[ssjup81]

This is just stupid...

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/superman-renounces-his-us-citizenship-20110504-1e780.html

I heard that the comic was going this way, but the reaction of it is just irrational.

[oldmanwinters]

Zoo on the loose in Ohio!
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2011/10/18/zanesville-exotic-animals-escape.html

Well, not so much a zoo, but an "animal farm" (appropriately named) that killed the owner and went on a romp through the countryside. Lions, wolves, cheetahs, tigers, giraffes, camels, grizzly bears and black bears may all be on the prowl tonight.

[BubblyShell22]

Mom just told me about this, but she heard the owner killed himself after he let them out on the prowl.

[oldmanwinters]

Mom just told me about this, but she heard the owner killed himself after he let them out on the prowl.

That would make better sense than the Orwellian animal uprising I imagined in my head.

[BubblyShell22]

And it was still f*cked up. I hope the police captured all the animals.

[Slap-Happy]

Apparently there are 45 dead animals (18 endangered Bengal Tigers included) while a lot are still on the loose.

[Redeemer]

Zoo on the loose in Ohio!
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2011/10/18/zanesville-exotic-animals-escape.html

Well, not so much a zoo, but an "animal farm" (appropriately named) that killed the owner and went on a romp through the countryside. Lions, wolves, cheetahs, tigers, giraffes, camels, grizzly bears and black bears may all be on the prowl tonight.

I am kind of ashamed that I didnt report this considering it was so close to me

The police claimed they had to kill them bc it happened at night and was simply to dangererous and not enough time to safely secure the animals.. Its a shame

[oldmanwinters]

Its a shame

Indeed it is. I just can't believe that all those exotic creatures could be kept legally on someone's farm. The now deceased owner must have had some serious problems to bring all this down upon the animals.

[Slap-Happy]

Indeed it is. I just can't believe that all those exotic creatures could be kept legally on someone's farm. The now deceased owner must have had some serious problems to bring all this down upon the animals.
They showed on the news today that 8 states have no restrictions on exotic animals.

Ohio's one of them.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I know. People can be so stupid sometimes.

[Redeemer]

Indeed it is. I just can't believe that all those exotic creatures could be kept legally on someone's farm. The now deceased owner must have had some serious problems to bring all this down upon the animals.

I guess, but here is the thing his wife was also there and she is alive and I am wondering how the hell she didn't notice or how the animals got out in such a short period of time in her absence????? I know they did say that the farm had constant inspections and didnt have any problems from what the said on the local news.

And yes sadly Ohio is one of those states.....:ohwell:

[oldmanwinters]

At least now there is public outcry for Ohio to get their animal laws under control:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-police-kill-escaped-lions-tigers-bears-020951746.html

[BubblyShell22]

Let's hope they listen to the outcry.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Some guy was killed by piranhas recently....in Bolivia I think. Was not eaten but bled to death.

[BubblyShell22]

Whoa. That's not good.

[Candy Kappa]

Some ruckus in the Norwegian Newspapers, after a school denied students during a holiday celebration to wear the classic Nisse hat, or the Santa hat as most probably will know it.

This was done to be more including with multi-cultural and people with a different religion, which beg to the big question... When did the Santa hat become religious item, or is there an Santa Clause religion I have missed?

Jokes aside, the principal of that school have been hounded in the newspapers since that particular hat, red long hat with white trim and white dot on is a very iconic head dress for Norwegians, not just Christmas related.

So in the newspapers there been several Muslims wearing the Santa hat telling in interviews that it's nothing wrong with the hat, and should be included in a Yule/Winter/Christmas/whateveryoucallit celebration. After all, removing classic traditions is not a very good way of including people or integrating them into a new culture in their new home land.

[Raph's Girl]

or is there an Santa Clause religion I have missed?

Well. St. Nicholas IS a religious figure for many and in NY there's the Church of St. Nicholas...but come on. It's just a hat!

[Candy Kappa]

Well. St. Nicholas IS a religious figure for many and in NY there's the Church of St. Nicholas...but come on. It's just a hat!

True, Santa do have strong ties to St. Nick. But here in Norway he is a lot more akin to the Farmer mythical creature Nisse (or Tomte in Swedish) to the point that the Norwegian name of Santa Clause is Yule Nisse, and many still in tradition sets out porridge and beer for Santa, at least those who have a farm.

[Hamato Yoshi]

-Severed head found near '66 Bat Cave

-Jan 19th marks 45th anniversary Batman episode "That darn CW" , guest starred Lesley Gore (Burt had a major crush on her while filming)

[KROW]

-Severed head found near '66 Bat Cave

Holy killer headache, Batman!

[BubblyShell22]

Whoa. That's creepy and very gruesome.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Drug deal gone bad perhaps......those murders then to be gruesome.

Here's the actual orig 7x9 advertising "That darn Catwoman"......purrfection !
http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp260/collector4ever/Batman%201966-67%20and%201989-92/66cw003.jpg

[Hamato Yoshi]

Anders Breivik is gonna write a book but he prolly wont get the profit.....owned :lol:

[Hamato Yoshi]

20 people bitten by piranhas in Brazil......seems rivers are drying up and the p's going near beaches.

[BubblyShell22]

Yikes! That's not good.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Seinfelds Kruger aka Dan von Bargens suicide attempt :cry:

[BubblyShell22]

How is that weird news? It just sounds like news to me.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Kinda weird since he survived.....usually it ends with a fatality when it's to the head. Sad either way.

[Candy Kappa]

The Norwegian Child- & Equality minister Audun Lysbakken have been pouring out money to his party the Socialistic Left Wing party's Socialistic Youth group and their defense class for girls.

These moneys have been given under the table, and went to the self-defence classes for girls, which had a requirement to join the political group making it a program to add more members to the party.

right now theres a committee that will investigate the corruption and Lysbakken have been filed to the police by a member of the Left wing party. The minister have also broken several rules of the Parliament of Norway.
I personally hope this is the end of his political career, not only is he a horrible minister but this is not acceptable and is no doubt corruption. Not to mention self-defense classes for women are total bull and gives false sense of control. If women who are afraid to go at nights want to learn to defend their self they should join a real martial arts club and be taught by actual professionals.

The weird thing is, Lysbakken will probably not be fired according to the Prime Minister

[BubblyShell22]

Ah, you gotta love corrupt politicians.

[Guitar_Raph]

MINNESOTA: I've heard of diamonds being hot or even furniture/appliances being smuggled.

A man shoplifted Tide deterget to sell for black market. Laundry detergemt, ridiculous! Guess he was felling Bold hoping to Gain some sales & gave it his All.

I prefer Oxydol myself.

What's his next heist, Downy fabric softerner?

[BubblyShell22]

Now that's weird and hilarious. People are so dumb.

[MikeandRaph87]

A stray kitten got stuck in the bummer of a car and somehow got away uninjured. A bonus ot add to the randomness the host is Phil Lamarr,best known as John Stewart's voice actor. I recognized him from the Justice League commentary/features on the DVDs.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-22772304/kitten-takes-412-mile-ride-inside-a-car-bumper-29741167.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Foddnews-22772304%252Fkitten-takes-412-mile-ride-inside-a-car-bumper-29741167.html

[Guitar_Raph]

FLORIDA: A lifeguard rescues a drowning man on the beach. Then he gets fired by the heads because he left the territory! The other lifeguards were shocked, they walked off & quit as well. They offered him his job back, but declined!

What next? A Boy/Girl Scout being drummed out because they wandered off their camp to save someone's life.

[Mr.Turtle]

they fired him n then offered him job back? that's so lame...

[Impervium Gem]

I can understand somehow that he doesn't want to work there again after they treated him that nastily. His former bosses don't seem to have a grasp of what the job 'lifeguard' is about. A shame, really.

[Green Machine]

they fired him n then offered him job back? that's so lame...

The story made national news and they surely caught a backlash of negative publicity. So they tried to backtrack and give him his job back. I'm glad he declined. There's just no common sense anymore.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I heard about this story. It's so horrible how people are treated nowadays. I'm actually glad he declined the offer for his job back. Why should he continue to work for someone who treated him unfairly?

[Hamato Yoshi]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/22/swedish-woman-sex-skeleton_n_2174838.html

Rumor has it :

-she might be a transexual or hermaphrodite
-she tried to dig up Julie Andrews mom :o
-she's into pix of corpses and fatal accidents (car , plane)

[Dirty Blond]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244269/Marc-Paskin-Real-estate-mogul-puts-All-I-want-Christmas-Latina-girlfriend-billboard.html

[Dirty Blond]

http://www.puahate.com/showthread.php?t=49922

[Ulisses31]

http://www.puahate.com/showthread.php?t=49922

Ha! Headsets.... wow

[Dirty Blond]

http://www.infowars.com/environmentalist-group-to-hand-out-endangered-species-condoms/

[MikeandRaph87]

http://search.yahoo.com/search?cs=bz&p=Dick%20Clark&fr=fp-tts-701&fr2=ps#tts=4

A pair of Oompa Loompa costumed men attack British pedestrians.

[TheCanadiandrome]

http://search.yahoo.com/search?cs=bz&p=Dick%20Clark&fr=fp-tts-701&fr2=ps#tts=4

A pair of Oompa Loompa costumed men attack British pedestrians.
Yeah I saw that, I was like wtf?

[MikeandRaph87]

Bicycle swallowed by tree over 59 years.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bicycle-swallowed-tree-wash-154527745--abc-news-topstories.html

[Redeemer]

Bicycle swallowed by tree over 59 years.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bicycle-swallowed-tree-wash-154527745--abc-news-topstories.html

wow just wow :o

[Lethal Lullaby]

Bicycle swallowed by tree over 59 years.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bicycle-swallowed-tree-wash-154527745--abc-news-topstories.html

:lol: Sorry. I wouldn't think that would even be possible.

[Dirty Blond]

http://www.puahate.com/showthread.php?t=53114

[MikeandRaph87]

:lol: Sorry. I wouldn't think that would even be possible.

If I did not see a picture that has no tampering signs I would not believe it either. That and its not on a fake news site so its strange but true.

[oldmanwinters]

Wow....

http://gizmodo.com/5975787/woman-drives-for-900-miles-instead-of-90-thanks-to-gps-error

I went to school with a girl who drove half way across state in the wrong direction on her way to a basketball game, but this really takes the cake.

I was distracted, so I kept driving. I saw all kinds of traffic signs, first in French, then German and finally in Croatian, but I kept driving because I was distracted. Suddenly I appeared in Zagreb and I realized I wasn't in Belgium anymore.

[Redeemer]

Wow....

http://gizmodo.com/5975787/woman-drives-for-900-miles-instead-of-90-thanks-to-gps-error

I went to school with a girl who drove half way across state in the wrong direction on her way to a basketball game, but this really takes the cake.

wow special ed

[BubblyShell22]

Whoa. That's pretty weird for sure.

[Triceraton Jones]

Wow....

http://gizmodo.com/5975787/woman-drives-for-900-miles-instead-of-90-thanks-to-gps-error

I went to school with a girl who drove half way across state in the wrong direction on her way to a basketball game, but this really takes the cake.

This is ridiculous, she was "distracted". I've missed my bus stop once before because of being distracted but I got off at the next stop. How could anyone possibly drive over 800 miles more than they were suppose to? how could anyone not realise hang on 90 miles should only take a couple of hours, not a couple of days? Insane!

[snake]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/sea-lamprey-photo-new-jersey_n_2766048.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Faking scary..

[Refractive Reflections]

This is just CRAY-ZAY! :o

Just when you thought the world couldn't get any crazier or deranged...
Poor guy, but a... what can one expect by replying to those adult "ads" and a cocktail of drugs.

WPTV-NBC: Priscilla Vaughn genitals biting allegation: Alleged escort charged with attempted murder (http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/priscilla-vaughn-genitals-biting-allegation-alleged-escort-charged-with-attempted-murder)

[Guitar_Raph]

NORTH DAKOTA: A new anchor for an NBC station had his career short, after cursing on the air, which he thoiught he was off the air.

In one of my Kermit Schafer Bloopers books, he mentions a radio announcer who lost his job after three words. He was suppose to say "The Hit Show". But he blooped it saying (you figure it out).

[Guitar_Raph]

LAS VEGAS: A 12 year old boy gets after a motorcycle cop for parking on the sidewalk. He even asked for his badge number.

[Hamato Yoshi]

http://news.yahoo.com/mass-murderer-breivik-hunger-strike-better-video-games-145836044.html;_ylt=A0LEV1w8s_9S6EgAoj1XNyoA;_ylu= X3oDMTB0NzhxNXJ0BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUD M3N18x

:roll:

[Lou 500]

Football player Luis Suarez BITES another player (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/luis-suarez-bite-uruguay-striker-accused-of-biting-giorgio-chiellini-in-latest-controversy-during-world-cup-clash-9560650.html)

And the worst part is that this is the third time he's done it.

[Darthknuxward]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/sea-lamprey-photo-new-jersey_n_2766048.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
faking scary..

holy sh*t!

[Guitar_Raph]

DALLAS: After the reason football scandals over child & spouse abuse, a tavern has banned NFL games from being televised @ that establishment.

At least there's no bar that bans all sports tv, except for PBA bowling (LOL)!

[BubblyShell22]

Really? I feel that's a little extreme to ban all NFL games just because of two idiot players.

[Hamato Yoshi]

abcnews.go.com%2FInternational%2FwireStory%2Fus-man-killed-camel-mexican-wildlife-park-26215579

Terrible way to go , RIP :cry:

[Dirty Blond]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/woman-married-to-cats-barbarella-buchner_n_6455472.html

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Australia- a man gets arrested for driving an unlicensed, unregistered, uninsured vehicle on a highway. It was- wait for it- a gas-powered beer-cooler! The vehicle and contents were impounded..... (Penny, you might have heard more about this one- I heard it on a Sirius satellite radio station.)


And in Seattle, a dog has taken to riding the bus to his favorite dog park- SOLO. Apparently, his owner was taking him, but stopped for a smoke break one day, and the dog got on the bus and went to the park without him. The owner later met his pooch at the park. Now the dog takes HIMSELF for rides to the park. Jus saw this on the Fox news tonight, LOL!

[CaliperCat]

http://nypost.com/2015/01/13/principal-wants-to-stockpile-canned-foods-as-weapons-against-intruders/

I heard about this on the radio one day on my way to work, and got a pretty good chuckle out of it.

[turtlefanforever]

girl fired from job before she even starts

https://www.sickchirpse.com/girl-fired-twitter-job/

[Netkeeper]

Hahaha, what an idiot. She deserved to get fired for that one.

[Mayhem]

One reason I don't use Facebook, and if I did, not have anyone related to work added as friends :P

[BubblyShell22]

Yep, she should have known better.

[Guitar_Raph]

SOUTH CAROLINA: A teacher punishes a 7 year old boy by making him clean a toilet he overstuffed! He was more humiliated when all the classmates watched him! Did they allow the girls to witness that in the boys room?

[Ninjinister]

Overstuffed with what? Poo? Non-poo items? Help me out here, you ain't got a link with the deets.

[Guitar_Raph]

Overstuffed with what? Poo? Non-poo items? Help me out here, you ain't got a link with the deets.

Think it was toilet tissue.

[Guitar_Raph]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/kitchen-manager-fired-free-lunches_n_7496352.html

Is generosity only legal around the Christmas holidays? That's my honest opinion.

[IndigoErth]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-actress-sued-her-intense-stare-n372436?cid=sm_fb

Chinese Actress Sued for Her Intense Stare

Zhao Wei, one of the most famous stars in China, has been sued for staring too intensely at the plaintiff through the television screen.

A new court regulations system was passed in China, which authorities hoped would "put an end to obstructive behavior by courts and officials meddling in cases," according to The Associated Press. However, an unintended consequence of this change is the increase in frivolous cases like the man who claims Wei's stare caused him "spiritual damage."

[Powder]

Whaaaaaaaat?

If I move to China can I sue reality TV stars for existing? :tlol:

[Netkeeper]

#scopophobia

[Guitar_Raph]

OVERTON, TX; Two little sisters tried to raise money to get their dad a Father's Day gift by opening a lemonade stand, were shut down by the police!

First McKinney, now this? I wouldn't dare wear a blue uniform!

[shuriken]

^^That's pretty garbage...

[oldmanwinters]

Be careful when bathing, or you might just end up pink:
http://news.yahoo.com/girl-misused-bath-oil-now-223941069.html

[Candy Kappa]

So this happened close where I live.

http://www.fvn.no/lokalt/kristiansand/Police-officer-Bruce-Willis-could-never-have-done-this-2955315.html

[Apollo976]

Saw this today and thought it was pretty funny.
http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/boaty-mcboatface-competition/#UaVrtK0xTPqw

[Utrommaniac]

While this happened at the end of last December, it's still very worth sharing.

Nicolas Cage accidentally bought a black market Mongolian Tyrannosaurus in a bid. (http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/nicolas-cage-returns-stolen-mongolian-dinosaur-skull-he-bought-at-gallery) And had it returned to the Mongolian government once he learned out it ended up in the bid in the first place.

This isn't all that surprising, since a lot of dinosaur fossils come out of Mongolia that way; it's how Deinocherus' full body evaded us for so long.

I think the funniest part about it is that he outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for it.

[Utrommaniac]

Not really "weird" news, but Orlando Bloom decided to move to Waco, Texas (http://km8news.com/waco-texas/orlando-bloom-explains-why-hes-moving-to-waco-texas/)...where I am currently living.
Waco is a pretty tiny place, so I feel a chance of at least seeing him somewhere. If I ever get out more.

It's a really weird, choice though. Of all the tiny towns in all the states in all the nation, and he comes to this one? That's only on the map because of an interior decorating show and a tragic biker shooting in a restaurant that's still closed?

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Not really "weird" news, but Orlando Bloom decided to move to Waco, Texas (http://km8news.com/waco-texas/orlando-bloom-explains-why-hes-moving-to-waco-texas/)...where I am currently living.
Waco is a pretty tiny place, so I feel a chance of at least seeing him somewhere. If I ever get out more.

It's a really weird, choice though. Of all the tiny towns in all the states in all the nation, and he comes to this one? That's only on the map because of an interior decorating show and a tragic biker shooting in a restaurant that's still closed?

Hmm... maybe I should head out to Waco and try to bump into him for an autograph. See if he can give me the phone numbers for Geoffrey Rush, Johnny, and Keira, too. :tlol:

[Utrommaniac]

With the traffic here? Good luck.

I would, however, like to be a fly on the wall if he's ever at Twisted Root, where they give you cards with celebrity/character names when your order's ready. Just to watch two people stand up when "Orlando Bloom" is called, only for the real Orlando Bloom to sit down, remembering that his card is "Danny deVito" or something.

[Candy Kappa]

So this happened in my city
http://norwaytoday.info/news/man-shot-police-kristiansand-dies-injuries/

The Police got a call from a 'concerned citizen' about a man carrying a gun, when the Police arrived at the scene a car chase ensued. The 35 year old shot at the police while driving his car away from them, so it was completely Texas.

None of the officers are suspended during the investigation as the act was considered legal, but they are on light work duty and are under their supervisors care encase of physiological trauma.

It is the fourth person that's been shot dead by Police Officers in Norway the last 14 years, it's a pretty high number.

It's really surreal, I'm fairly certain I know who the guy was, as he lives in same town as my dad does and I think his step daughter goes in same class as my little brother.

[IndigoErth]

So... future Bebop? :teek:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/human-pig-hybrid-embryo-chimera-organs-health-science/


Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts
Scientists hope the chimera embryos represent key steps toward life-saving lab-grown organs.


In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they have created the first successful human-animal hybrids. The project proves that human cells can be introduced into a non-human organism, survive, and even grow inside a host animal, in this case, pigs.

This biomedical advance has long been a dream and a quandary for scientists hoping to address a critical shortage of donor organs.





The team then took stem cells from rats and injected them into pig blastocysts. This version failed—not surprisingly, since rats and pigs have dramatically different gestation times and evolutionary ancestors.

But pigs have a notable similarity to humans. Though they take less time to gestate, their organs look a lot like ours.

Not that these similarities made the task any easier. The team discovered that, in order to introduce human cells into the pigs without killing them, they had to get the timing just right.

“We tried three different types of human cells, essentially representing three different times” in the developmental process, explains Jun Wu, a Salk Institute scientist and the paper’s first author. Through trial and error, they learned that naïve pluripotent cells—stem cells with unlimited potential—didn’t survive as well as ones that had developed a bit more.

When those just-right human cells were injected into the pig embryos, the embryos survived. Then they were put into adult pigs, which carried the embryos for between three and four weeks before they were removed and analyzed.

[Hamato Yoshi]

A man in Finland was raped by a pig and when the staff caught him , he pulled up his pants and tried to flee but fell in the pig sti.

According to Finnish law he can't be prosecuted as long as the animal wasn't hurt , meaning sex with animals is legal there :o:

He was arrested for DUI and disturbing the peace , though ;)

[AT-Man]

A man in Finland was raped by a pig and when the staff caught him , he pulled up his pants and tried to flee but fell in the pig sti.

According to Finnish law he can't be prosecuted as long as the animal wasn't hurt , meaning sex with animals is legal there :o:

He was arrested for DUI and disturbing the peace , though ;)

omg link plz

[Hamato Yoshi]

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/man-lag-med-gris--atalas-for-flera-brott/

Not making this up , it's been in the news.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Elvis airplane goes for more than 400k , an LP record goes for over 6k....not too shabby prices for a man that's been gone 40 yrs now.

[IndigoErth]

Those that follow I F#&%ing Love Science on FB may have seen this already, but for others that haven't...

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-images-of-a-slime-eel-incident-on-highway-101-have-gone-viral/

http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/09fba5e8-0b2a-5e86-8d35-1e7fe856196a/extra_large-1500290372-cover-image.jpg

So what happened here? Well, we finally have an explanation. After a lot of teasing, the Oregon State Police gave an explanation on their website about the incident, in a post titled "Slime Eel Crash on Highway 101".

They explain that the Mitsubishi truck (seen some distance from the slime-covered cars in the photos) was transferring 7,500 pounds of hagfish, known as "slime eels", despite not actually being eels, up the highway. When the vehicle was flagged to stop by a traffic cop, the driver, Salvatore Tragale, attempted to stop. Unfortunately, the transfer of weight caused one of the containers to come loose, and slide onto the road and tip over. The other containers soon followed suit, and separated from the bed of the truck, spilling onto the highway.

When one of the loose containers struck the Nissan car (covered in hagfish in the photographs above) it caused a pileup of cars behind it. The cars were covered in eels, with the Nissan at the front, driven by Kim Randall, 64, the unlucky recipient of the most fish.

Unfortunately for all involved, when hagfish become stressed they secrete mucus, which is the slime that can be seen in the photos and this video, captured by a witness.




"The cars were covered in eels..."
...that were actually hagfish understandably freaking out and doing what hagfish do.

I'm curious how many drivers of those cars died, or at least half died on the inside, in this incident. Not from the accident, but from sheer horror. Not to mention a probably dumbfounded cop who decided to pull over the truck and watched it take place as a result.

[Powder]

Poor creatures. :(

[oldmanwinters]

A definite trend in current events conversation:
https://i.imgur.com/skC36Rt.jpg

". . . because the days are evil."

[Papenbrook]

A Japanese school forces a student to dye her hair black! (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/japanese-student-sues-over-schools-order-to-dye-hair-black)

[TurtleWA]

Sometimes plane travel really stinks.

A flight from Dubai to Amsterdam had to make an emergency landing in Vienna after a fight broke out because one of the passengers wouldn’t stop breaking wind.

The fart-induced fracas happened Feb. 11 aboard Transavia Airlines Flight HV6902 when two men sitting next to an apparently very flatulent man raised a stink about his repeated gas attacks, according to Fox News.

When the alleged perpetrator didn’t stop, his disgusted seatmates reportedly complained to the airline crew, who apparently did nothing.

Instead, the captain issued a warning to the two complainants, accusing them of noisy and aggressive behavior and making threats, according to the NL Times.

When the freedom-from-flatulence fighters wouldn’t stop griping about their fellow passenger, a fight broke out on the plane, according to the Dutch language newspaper De Telegraaf.

The pilots then made an emergency stop in Vienna and removed the complainants, but apparently not the farting man. Two women sitting in the same row as the angry men were also forced off the plane as well.

All four people reportedly shared Dutch and Moroccan ancestry, but the two women claim they were simply sitting in the same row as the men involved with the incident.

The women are now taking the Dutch budget airline to court, according to the Metro.

“We had nothing to do with the whole disturbance. We distance ourselves from that. Do they sometimes think that all Moroccans cause problems? That’s why we do not let it sit,” one of the women said, according to De Telegraaf. ”We had no idea who these boys were, we just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn’t do anything.”

“All I will say is that the crew were really provocative and stirred things up,” she added.

None of the passengers kicked off the plane were arrested because they had not broken any Austrian laws. However, they have been banned from flying Transavia Airlines in the future.

HuffPost reached out to Transavia Airlines, which did not immediately respond. The airline did offer this statement to De Telegraaf that was translated by the NL Times:

Our crew must ensure a safe flight. If passengers pose a risk, they immediately intervene. Our people are trained for that. They know very well where the boundaries are. Transavia therefore stands squarely behind the cabin crew and the pilots.

The airline has reportedly filed a police report about the incident in the Netherlands said it was “open to a conversation with these women.”

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/farting-passenger-forces-plane-emergency-185237663.html

[Papenbrook]

For this week only, you can now vote for your favorite, plus-sized cubs. (https://www.outsideonline.com/2348946/glory-otis-fattest-fat-bears) :)

[Candy Kappa]

So this is a hilarious one. Famed Megan Fox was in Norway last year filming Legends Of The Lost with Megan Fox. And someone apparently informed her that Norway got wolves.

So when she was on location she demanded armed guards! And that's a highly unusual demand to say the least, and of course there where no armed guards to hire, so the guy who owned the area they filmed in and his son had to bring along their rifles and just carried their ammo in their pockets :lol:

Wolves are a hot button topic in Norwegian politics, as anti-wolf groups want them extinct while pro-wolf groups wants to let the wolves have a liveable population as the wolf hunting quota is really high. And Megan was probably given some juicy misinformation about wolves and got scared. There hasn't been a wolf related death since 1800 in Norway.

[Voltron]

News is Fox insisted that co-star Taylor Lautner be shot on site.

[IndigoErth]

That is too funny... That girl is such a weird one.

Who even comes up with that or green lights it... Legends Of The Lost with Megan Fox. It sounds like a concept that only The Onion might concoct.

[Candy Kappa]

haha yeah. She apparently also had a fuss that there was no toilets in the wilderness....

A friend of mine have seen the episode, it's was pretty solid. The theme was about the "recent" discovery that a large number of Norse graves where the dead person was buried with weapons where women.

The "recent" part is that more researchers actually starts to check the bones instead of "Weapon=a man" and that's it. :lol:

[Voltron]

. . . Everything in the wilderness is a toilet. . .

[IndigoErth]

Well... I'd at least avoid a hornet nest or patch of poison ivy. lol


Who the heck does a show like that or plans to spend any amount of time in the wilderness without even considering the basics like bathroom needs. :tlol: I can understand that there are certain weeks as a woman when trying to deal with woman things sans bathrooms would be kind of an issue, but come on... think it through first, sister.

[IndigoErth]

Plaguing creatures for hundreds of millions of years? Hopefully a cure will one day be sweet revenge.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/02/ridiculously-rare-cancer-found-fossil-leg-turtle-triassic-paleontology/

'Ridiculously rare' case of cancer found in fossilized leg
A 240-million-year-old turtle was afflicted with a type of bone cancer resembling one that strikes hundreds of people each year.


By John Pickrell
PUBLISHED February 7, 2019

About 240 million years ago in what is now Germany, a turtle that hadn’t yet evolved a shell developed something much less fortuitous: a kind of bone tumor that afflicted one of its hind legs.

The fossilized tumor, described today in the journal JAMA Oncology, shows that even in the Triassic period, at around the time the first dinosaurs appeared, animals could be plagued with mutations in their DNA that led to cancer.

Cancer 101

What is cancer, and how does it start? Find out how genetics play a role, which types of cancer are the most prevalent, and what is being done to fight this deadly disease.

The find is exciting, because “cancer is ridiculously rare in the fossil record,” says study leader Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at Berlin’s Museum of Natural History. “Most cancers are in soft tissues, and although we can see sometimes evidence of soft tissue pathologies on [fossil] bone, cancer would be really hard to diagnose that way.” (Today, for example, a virus is causing sea turtles to suffer from life-threatening tissue tumors.)

The study team determined that the ancient growth was a kind of bone cancer called a periosteal osteosarcoma—one that “looks almost exactly like osteosarcoma in humans,” says coauthor Patrick Asbach, a medical doctor and radiologist at Berlin’s Charité University of Medicine. This specific type of bone cancer afflicts about 800 to 900 of the 3,450 or so people who are diagnosed with skeletal cancers each year in the U.S. today.

“It is interesting to see that the diseases we know quite well also appeared in extinct animals, and that we as humans are not the only ones who struggle with it,” Asbach says.

Missing link in turtle evolution

The shell-less turtle relative sporting the tumor, Pappochelys rosinae, was first revealed to the world in 2015. At the time, the Chihuahua-size species was hailed as the final piece in the puzzle showing how turtle shells evolved from flattened ribs and belly bones into the armored body boxes they are today.

Around 20 specimens of Pappochelys were discovered in 2008 at a limestone quarry near the town of Velberg, about 50 miles northeast of Stuttgart, Germany. The fossils have since been held at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart.

Among them was a thighbone with a puzzling growth that came to Haridy’s attention last summer. She then recruited Asbach to help conduct a micro-CT scan to look inside the fossil bone and see its internal structure, which allowed the team to determine the type of cancer involved.

While it’s impossible to know for sure if the cancer this turtle suffered from led to its demise, in human cases of osteosarcoma, it often spreads to the lungs.

“If it did spread to the lungs, it may have made the turtle less efficient in escaping or feeding, which could have ultimately caused its death,” Haridy speculates.

While it is relatively common to see pathologies in fossil bones, the majority are the result of traumatic injuries such as bites and breaks, says Steve Salisbury, a paleontologist at the University of Queensland in Australia who has researched infectious disease in T. rex fossils.

“Only rarely are we able to link pathologies in fossil vertebrates to known diseases,” adds Salisbury, who was not one of the study authors. “It would be interesting to compare the fossil bone with examples of similar cancers in modern turtles, assuming the ones that afflicted them in the Triassic still do today.” (Also see a fossil toe that holds the earliest known case of cancer in humans.)

Cancer’s very ancient origins

Scientists have found several other very ancient cancers in fossil fish and an amphibian, and a non-cancerous tumour in a slightly older mammal relative called a gorgonopsid. However, this new find is the earliest cancer ever discovered in an amniote, the group that includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

The discovery of an osteosarcoma helps dispel a belief held by some experts that diseases change so much over time that “current disease manifestations cannot be used to recognize past afflictions,” says coauthor Bruce Rothschild, a professor of medicine at the University of Kansas and a research associate at the Carnegie Museum who has studied cancer in dinosaurs.

“Not only could cancer be recognized and the diagnosis confirmed, but it could even be diagnosed down to a specific variety.”

And while it is true that modern cancer-causing agents such as nicotine and alcohol can increase our chances of developing cancer, the discovery of a tumor from the Triassic adds to evidence that many of the cancers we have today and their associated genes are likely to have very ancient origins, the experts argue.

“We are not very different,” Rothschild says, “from all those with whom we share and have shared this planet.”

[AquaParade]

I find it weird that Nancy Pelosi wants to claim that she was set up by a hair salon.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Damn fools who think they can stay at a hotel for days and not settle the tab , some punks in Norway didnt pay 90k krones (thats more than 9 grand owed....mustve been one hell of a party)

Was watching a show about brit landlords the other day , the tenant asked for 400£ to leave , of course he stiffed the landlord/didnt keep his word and smashed the sink , the landlord was also out 6 months rent because of this fool

Had i been a landlord i doubt i wouldve been as patient.......

[Papenbrook]

A Japanese school forces a student to dye her hair black! (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/japanese-student-sues-over-schools-order-to-dye-hair-black)


Well, this was the outcome (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/world/asia/japan-hair-school.html) ...

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Not sure it counts as weird, but certainly a little unusual and strange in my area. Friday morning around 3:30 AM, someone stopped at the local Velero station and apparently left a bag behind by the gas pump. The attendant found it a bit later, and then promptly called police after seeing what was in it- items that appeared to make an incendiary device! They took pics, which they showed to the cops when they arrived, and the place was immediately shut down and evacuated. The street next to the station and the service road leading to the highway on the other side were both closed off. Police called for an area bomb squad, and watched the video of the cc camera to see who left it. There was an arrest later, but needless to say, seeing four cop cars and a fire marshal at a gas station at 4:30 AM (when I was passing by that exact same station) was quite an odd sight, and more surprising when I discovered WHY it was all blocked off! So someone tried to bomb a gas station in the middle of a nowhere town? Yikes!

[Hamato Yoshi]

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/tokyos-underworld-exploits-vulnerable-recruits-through-social-media-1.1699504986580

[The Deadman]

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/tokyos-underworld-exploits-vulnerable-recruits-through-social-media-1.1699504986580

Thats not weird at all...

[oldmanwinters]

Fandango founder jumped/fell out of a NYC hotel window on Tuesday:
https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/fandango-founder-j-michael-cline-dies-fall-new-york-hotel/BVHQLSCWBJDJLPUOICE2ZCDFWQ/

Internet conspiracy theorists make their own connections.

[Iroh]

Yeah, that Fandango guy pulled a stock market crash jump because no one goes to the movies anymore. Streaming and bootleggers of movies killed his vibe. So, he killed himself.

[Hamato Yoshi]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-says-sex-life-ruined-175656566.html

stung-by-scorpion-lawsuit

[IndigoErth]

What the heck. That sucks for him if that happened, but definitely sounds like an opportunistic lawsuit, imo. Sure, it's on the hotel that a scorpion had gotten in... but for what reason would you "suffer PTSD and emotional trauma" from just getting stung by something? :roll: At worst, maybe you're particularly afraid of scorpions now. He wasn't exactly rushed to the hospital with an allergic reaction and a brush with death, come on.

Scorpion-caused ED and ruined sex life is such an easy claim because no one is going to sit in their bedroom and ask for proof...

[triplexxx]

https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/world-news/russia-fines-google-20-5-decillion-more-than-the-entire-worlds-gdp/

Kinda reminds of:

https://youtu.be/BRAkobf-tVI?feature=shared

That's like saying, "I want a dajillion, quijillion, fintillion dollars."

[oldmanwinters]

The story about the 60-something former real-estate guy who flipped out on an airplane flight, and had to be restrained by other passengers with duct tape continues to get even weirder:
The crazed plane passenger who was duct-taped and zip-tied on a flight to New Jersey first flipped over a discussion about religion with his seatmate, a controversial Messianic rabbi who’s a best-selling author dubbed a “Doomsday prophet.”

Author Jonathan Cahn said that now-fired Arizona realtor Arthur Layne Lundeen, 67, allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs after first screaming at him that “Jesus is bulls–t.” . . .

“I have never seen someone change in a split second from light to dark as I saw then, as if something had taken him over,” Cahn said. “He went from the friendliest guy in the world to this dark person.”

Cahn leads the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey, part of the Messianic Jewish movement that believes Jesus is the messiah, making it generally considered a branch of Christianity.

He is also known for his controversial books, especially his debut 2011 novel, “The Harbinger,” which draws parallels between the 9/11 attacks and the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel, linking the events as a divine warning. . . .

Cahn claimed it was the cover of his newest novel, “The Altar of Pergamon,” that “triggered” Lundeen after they had been chatting amiably on last Thursday’s Newark-bound American Airlines flight.

Cahn said he referenced “the reality of the real power of god on Earth and in our lives,” leaving Lundeen irate and “cursing Jesus” and “blaspheming Jesus and God.”

He claimed Lundeen then started saying, “It’s all bulls–t. Jesus is bulls–t.”

As Lundeen continued his tirade, Cahn said he grew physically hostile, hitting his laptop and trying to take it away from the author as the plane was in the process of making its emergency landing. . . .

“The plane is in shock, the pilot is radioing the ground, for an emergency landing. We’re fighting over my computer,” Cahn said, noting that his laptop screen was damaged in the scuffle.

Passengers soon intervened and secured Lundeen to his seat with duct tape and plastic zip ties. Cahn said one flyer who helped subdue the madman told him, “You were being tested. God was testing you.”

The flight had to make an emergency landing in Baltimore after Lundeen flipped out and allegedly started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at a black flight attendant and attacking other passengers.

Cahn did not say if anything specific about his latest book “triggered” his seatmate, beyond it starting a conversation about religion.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/seatmate-of-duct-taped-plane-passenger-reveals-what-sparked-meltdown/

Also, kudos to the gunshop owner and the former police officer for making the best use of their tape stockpile:
https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/us-news/nj-gun-shop-owner-idd-as-hero-who-duct-taped-airline-passenger/